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Our government is smaller and less bureaucratic and has given more authority to the states than its two predecessors under Republican presidents.
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19,170
But I do believe we have to help our people get ready to succeed in the 21st Century.
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19,173
Well, he's better off than he was four years ago.
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19,177
I looked at the slowest growth in the century.
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19,179
We're going to pass a million bankruptcies this year for the first time in history.
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19,185
And it seems to me that if you take a look, are you better off?
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19,187
Saddam Hussein is probably better off than he was four years ago.
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19,188
Renee Proval (ph) is probably better off than he was four years ago.
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19,196
And it's up in some cases because both parents are working.
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19,203
Wages are goings up for the first time in a decade.
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19,209
So I think it's clear that we're better off than we were four years ago.
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19,212
That's what I want to focus on.
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19,213
But we are clearly better off than we were four years ago, as Senator Dole acknowledged this year.
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19,216
But in any event, I think we just look at the facts.
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19,217
We ask the people that are viewing tonight, are you better off than you were four years ago.
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19,221
Drug use has doubled the past 44 months all across America.
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19,222
Crime has gone down but it's because the mayors like Rudy Giuliani where one third of the drop happened in one city, New York City.
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19,228
Let's look at the position.
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19,230
He said he did the right thing then, he knew it wouldn't work at the time.
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19,232
Then his budget that he passed along with Speaker Gingrich cut Medicare $270 billion, more than was necessary to repair the Medicare trust fund.
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19,234
The American Medical, Hospital Association, the Nurses Association, the Catholic Hospital Association all said hundreds of hospitals could close and people would be hurt badly under the Dole-Gingrich Medicare plan that I vetoed.
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19,236
Now, my balanced budget plan adds ten years to the life of the Medicare trust fund, ten years.
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19,238
But it was simply wrong to finance their last scheme to cut Medicare $270 billion to run the risk of it withering on the vine.
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19,239
We always had to reform it over the years, but we need somebody who believes it in to reform it.
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19,243
But I've supported Medicare ever since.
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19,249
It's his trustees, the President's trustees, not mine, who says it's going to go broke.
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19,251
We ought to appoint a commission, just as we did in Social Security in 1983, when we rescued Social Security, and I was proud to be on that commission, along with Claude Pepper, the champion of senior citizens from Florida.
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19,253
Stop scaring the seniors, Mr. President.
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19,255
I think it's time to have a truce.
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19,261
We ought to do that, then we can have a commission.
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19,269
Well, the people need it, that's the point.
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19,271
This is a family tax cut.
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19,273
Now, maybe to some in this Bushnell Memorial that it's not a lot of money, but people watching tonight with a couple of kids, a working family, that's four or five months of day care, maybe a personal computer; it's may be three or four months of mortgage payments.
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19,278
It's a tax cut, cutting capital gains 50 percent.
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19,279
So you can go out and create more jobs and more opportunities.
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19,280
It's a state tax relief.
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19,281
It's a $500 per child tax credit.
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19,283
Now that the President gets millions of dollars from the trial lawyers, he probably doesn't like this provision.
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19,285
And it's also regulatory reform.
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19,291
It's not good to raise the deficit.
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19,295
The President wants to increase spending 20 percent over the next six years.
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19,297
I want the government to pinch pennies for a change instead of the American families.
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19,299
You also provide opportunity scholarships so low income parents will have the same choice that others have in sending their children to better schools.
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19,300
It will work, and when it does work, Mr. President, I know you'll congratulate me.
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19,303
Well, I try to articulate my positions as clearly as possible, tell people what I stand for and let them decide whether they're going to support me or not.
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19,306
And I told the people exactly what the Congress exactly what kind of bill I would sign.
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19,307
Now, a lot of the trial lawyers didn't want me to sign any bill at all, but I had thought we ought to do what we could to cut frivolous lawsuits, but they wouldn't make some of the changes that I thought should be made.
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19,310
The drunk driver had no money.
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19,311
Under the new bill, if I had signed it, a person like that could never have had any recovery.
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19,312
I thought that was wrong.
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19,313
So I gave four or five specific examples to the Congress and said, prove to me that these people could recover but we're going to eliminate frivolous lawsuits, I'll sign the bill.
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19,314
But generally I believe that a president has to be willing to do what he thinks is right.
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19,315
I've done a lot of things that were controversial.
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19,316
My economic plan, my trade position, Bosnia, Haiti, taking on the NRA for the first time, taking on the tobacco companies for the first time.
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19,320
How does he avoid conflict?
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19,322
I look at the trial lawyers, and when you're a few million short, you run out to Hollywood and pick up two to four million and organized labor comes to Washington, D.C. and puts 35 million into the pot.
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19,324
I was there for a while before I left on June the 11th.
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19,325
The trial lawyers and I don't -- you know, my wife's a lawyer.
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19,326
We're the only two lawyers in Washington that trust each other.
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19,327
But we're lawyers, I like lawyers.
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19,331
Small businessmen and businesswomen who paid 70 percent of your ninteen , your$265 billion tax increase, the largest tax increase in the history of America.
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19,332
I said that one day and Pat Moynihan, a Democrat, say, no, he said, in the history of the world.
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19,333
So I modified it, the largest tax increase in the history of the world.
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19,334
And it seems to me that there is a problem there, Mr. President.
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19,335
And I will address you as Mr. President.
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19,336
You didn't do that with Mr. with President Bush in 1992.
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19,339
I proved that I will sign reasonable tort reform.
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19,345
I think Senator Dole and I just honestly disagree.
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19,348
Let's be honest about it.
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19,350
That's why I reach out to the Perot voters.
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19,353
Whatever it is, whatever the checklist was in '92, it's all done with campaign finance reform.
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19,355
We tried six or eight years ago.
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19,357
We couldn't get it done, because I wasn't enforceable.
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19,360
They send it to Congress, and we have to vote it up or down.
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19,362
We are never going to fix it by the parties, because Democrats want a better advantage for themselves, we want a better advantage as Republicans, and that's not how it's going to work.
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19,364
I know the President's been puffing a lot on that.
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19,365
But I want to go back to 1965.
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19,371
It wasn't until election year, Mr. President, that you ever thought about stopping smoking.
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19,373
Cocaine is up 141 percent -- marijuana, cocaine up 166 percent.
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19,376
So I just want to try to correct it as we go along.
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19,382
And I shook hands with him on it and I appointed my members, and the commission never met.
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19,386
And he was not out there urging them to vote for the McCain-Feingold bill.
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19,388
And I hope we can finally get it in the next session of Congress, because we need it badly.
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They know the Democratic party won't do it.
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19,397
We ought to agree that somebody else should do it.
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19,404
But let's look at the overall record.
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19,408
I appointed a four-star general who led our efforts south of the border to keep drugs from coming into the country as our nation's drug czar.
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You don't want to politicize drugs, but it's already politicized Medicare, go out and scare senior citizens and other vulnerable groups, veterans and people who get Pell Grants and things like this.
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19,423
I mean, you say we've done all these bad things, which isn't the case.
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19,427
You resisted the appointment of a drug czar there because you thought it might interfere with treatment.
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I mean that's what, I want to stop it from coming across the border.
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19,437
But it seems to me the kids ought to -- if they've started, they ought to stop and just don't do it.
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That's what I thought we ought to do.
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19,444
We just have a different approach.
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19,447
We need to do this together and we can.
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But I've got a better idea.
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It's something I've worked on for 15 years.
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19,453
It's called the automated check or the instant check.
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19,454
It's being used in 17 states right now.
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States like Florida, Colorado, Virginia, and other states.
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